Well this month is half gone and then this year is near gone as well with just 2 weeks until 2024, wow. I started Friday with my usual well before 6 roll out to my routines that begin with some some quiet moments to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and to lift several up by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding as of this post. Nancy wanted to get rid of those delicious cookies she has been baking for weeks which call her name to eat, so I took a plateful with me to the Rec, thus I drove so not to break them up and everyone was thankful for the treat. I still have not eaten but a couple which mess up my desire to reach my goal of 185. I did play hard for two hours on the court and left with a wet shirt.
I piddled around in the gardens transplanting some more seedlings then hand watering the gardens until it was time to head to the local bank to set up our phone to use mobile banking that lets you take a picture of your deposit and send via wifi to the bank. That is so much easier than going inside our bank which now has no drive up tellers. That took awhile and then we stopped at to post office to mail cards before Nancy dropped me off at home and she went shopping.
After a lunch of garden romaine for a Caesar's salad I headed in to watch the news on the Israel war and they are wiping out the Hamas terrorists one by one but are suffering some casualties in this street style fighting. Those in the world who take the side of the terrorist are as bad if not worse than these barbarians and to think we have Americans supporting them just makes me ill.
Well we headed out around 5'ish to Keswick with a stop at Publix for something she needed for Sunday's lunch with the Botbyl's and then to the girls basketball games. We saw the JV game as well as the varsity and while they were hard fought we won both games against a good Clearwater High school program. Those girls were mostly black with height but we prevailed with awesome defense at times and Ava played great again. It was nearly 9:30 before the game was over and we won by 9 points after they closed to with in 2 points in the 4th quarter.
Well we are supposed to get some severe weather with down pours todays so I took the leaf blower and cleaned off the flat rood and gutters which weren't too bad with debris from the big oak. The schools have canceled all activities scheduled for today as well as has many other civic activities in preparation for this storm, LATER
